Ken Adams said : “The weight and moment for the weapons module stations has always been included in the LCS design.”

Unless the gross overweight observed on the LockMart design was included in the original design (yeah…), or somehow disappeared without NAVSEA and/or LockMart beating their chest in the mainstream press about yet another tremendous achievement (yeah…), then adding more topweight isn’t good news. I suspect that this was what Byron was actually referring to.

The weight and moment for the weapons module stations has always been included in the LCS design. This is not a thoughtless bolt-on.

I wouldn’t put too much into the fact that the guns are currently installed. The stbd gun was aboard the ship when I saw her in Little Creek back in July. The ship has been doing various tests and qualifications when it’s been underway. Recently, a video from structure test firings made its way onto YouTube.

Having read this I believed it was really informative. I appreciate you spending some time and effort to put this short article together. I once again find myself spending a significant amount of time both reading and leaving comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!